Red Hat Security Advisory: grafana security update
Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB. Security Fix(es): * net/http: Request smuggling due to acceptance of invalid chunked data in net/http (CVE-2025-22871) * grafana: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Grafana via Custom Frontend Plugins and Open Redirect (CVE-2025-4123) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The advisories cover two security issues in Grafana as packaged by Red Hat. CVE-2025-22871 is a request smuggling vulnerability in the net/http package caused by acceptance of invalid chunked data. CVE-2025-4123 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Grafana that can be triggered via custom frontend plugins and an open redirect. Red Hat has released updated Grafana packages for affected versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and 10.x to remediate these vulnerabilities.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2025-4123 could allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks, potentially leading to unauthorized script execution in users' browsers. CVE-2025-22871 could enable HTTP request smuggling attacks, which may allow bypassing security controls or interfering with HTTP request processing. Both vulnerabilities are rated with high security impact by Red Hat. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Grafana packages that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 (versions >=8.8 <8.8.1) and 10.x (versions >=10.0 <10.2.6) as detailed in the Red Hat advisories RHSA-2025:8685 and RHSA-2025:7892. Refer to https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 for update instructions. Applying these official patches fully mitigates the vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory: grafana security update
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Description
Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB. Security Fix(es): * net/http: Request smuggling due to acceptance of invalid chunked data in net/http (CVE-2025-22871) * grafana: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Grafana via Custom Frontend Plugins and Open Redirect (CVE-2025-4123) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Affected software
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The advisories cover two security issues in Grafana as packaged by Red Hat. CVE-2025-22871 is a request smuggling vulnerability in the net/http package caused by acceptance of invalid chunked data. CVE-2025-4123 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Grafana that can be triggered via custom frontend plugins and an open redirect. Red Hat has released updated Grafana packages for affected versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and 10.x to remediate these vulnerabilities.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2025-4123 could allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks, potentially leading to unauthorized script execution in users' browsers. CVE-2025-22871 could enable HTTP request smuggling attacks, which may allow bypassing security controls or interfering with HTTP request processing. Both vulnerabilities are rated with high security impact by Red Hat. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Grafana packages that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 (versions >=8.8 <8.8.1) and 10.x (versions >=10.0 <10.2.6) as detailed in the Red Hat advisories RHSA-2025:8685 and RHSA-2025:7892. Refer to https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 for update instructions. Applying these official patches fully mitigates the vulnerabilities.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:8685
- Cve Count
- 2
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-22871"]
Threat ID: 6a18be67e29bf47b50386ed7
Added to database: 05/28/2026, 22:15:03 UTC
Last enriched: 08/17/2026, 18:59:17 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:50 UTC
Views: 278
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